Alien Ant Farm frontman Dryden Mitchell has printed that Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield as soon as took the vocalist and his folks out to dinner.
Mitchell advised the tale in a brand new interview with NME, remembering when Alien Ant Farm supported the heavy steel icons on excursion and had been anticipated to accomplish their well-known 2001 duvet of Michael Jackson’s Clean Prison.
“We opened for [Metallica] in Germany and, as an alternative of Clean Prison, we performed Sade’s Clean Operator in entrance of a steel crowd – and we were given away with it!” mentioned the vocalist.
“James mentioned: ‘You guys are ballsy as hell! I will’t imagine you probably did that and the group favored it!’
“Anyway, I left him a CD of ours and I put my quantity inside of.
“Months later, he texted me asking: ‘Do you want to return to dinner this night?’ My folks had been visiting so I needed to flip him down!
“Moments later, he hit me again announcing: ‘That’s beautiful cool that you just grew to become me down on your folks’, and invited them alongside too.”
In the similar interview, Mitchell additionally printed the response that Michael Jackson had upon seeing the song video for Alien Ant Farm’s Clean Prison duvet.
“[Jackson] mentioned he beloved it however he didn’t just like the boy dressed in the masks, more than likely as a result of Michael wore the masks after botched surgical procedures.
“We had been all freaking out as a result of we didn’t wish to offend him. There used to be a bit of little bit of poking a laugh within the video, however we really are fanatics.
“The director needed to reshoot the boy dancing with out the masks, however after that, Michael determined: ‘You understand what? I love it higher with the masks.’ I couldn’t imagine we had been in fact in correspondence with the man!”
Alien Ant Farm’s Clean Prison model, from their Anthology album, stays the band’s greatest hit, having reached the highest of the United States selection charts and quantity 3 on the United Kingdom charts.
The only has been qualified two occasions Platinum via the ARIA.
Alien Ant Farm launched Mantras, their first studio album in 9 years, on April 26.
Steel Hammer journalist Dannii Leivers gave the album a 7/10 overview upon free up.
